raddle

名词 n. 动词 v.
中文释义

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. A red ochre. countable,uncountable
  2. A long, flexible stick, rod, or branch, interwoven with others between upright posts or stakes, in making a kind of hedge or fence.
  3. A hedge or fence made with raddles.
    — A raddle - hedge is a hedge of pleached or plash'd or twisted or wreathed twigs or boughs
  4. An instrument consisting of a wooden bar, with a row of upright pegs set in it, used by domestic weavers to keep the warp of a proper width and prevent tangling when it is wound upon the beam of the loom.
动词 v.
  1. To mark with raddle; to daub something red.
  2. To interweave or twist together.
    — raddling or working it up like basket work
  3. To do work in a slovenly way.

词形变化

raddles plural raddles present,singular,third-person raddling participle,present raddled participle,past raddled past raddles plural

词汇关系

衍生词
raddleman
相关词
ruddy raddled

词源

词源 1
From a variation of reddle, ruddle. Related to red.
词源 2
From earlier radel, redle (noun), and ruddle (verb), perhaps a transposition of hurdle or an alteration of riddle (“curtain”).
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